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Android programmers will be very interested to know that Amazon.com today invited them to submit Android apps that will be for sale through the company’s own app store, which will be called the Amazon Appstore. The size and scope of Amazon.com is foretelling; Amazon Appstore will have a much larger impact than smaller app stores […]

Microsoft is not happy with a Google researcher who published a zero-day Internet Explorer vulnerability on January 1st. By using the cross_fuzz browser fuzzing tool of his own creation, Michal Zalewski found the vulnerability and says he gave Microsoft over 6 months to fix the bug before he published a note about it. Microsoft, however, […]

Quite often, I will be visiting a website and wonder about a certain font that is used. While years as a typographer and a Web designer have given me a keen eye for type styles, sometimes I need to peek at the CSS. Normally, this would entail launching Firebug and using the inspection tool to […]

The Web Storage specification’s goal is to define “an API for persistent data storage of key-value pair data in Web clients” and is separate from the storage functionality of the HTML5 specification. HTML5’s local storage, however, is still called Web Storage by some, and DOM Storage by others. HTML5 Storage (web storage) is actually the […]

Eric Meyer is well known for the creation of a “reset stylesheet” that ensures that each web browser starts using the same set of display defaults. This week he released an update to his reset stylesheet which includes options for HTML5. The latest version of reset stylesheet is available for download from Eric’s site. New […]

When you are building or tweaking a site design, constantly changing/saving/uploading CSS files is time-consuming. The Color That Site! extension is a feature-rich tool for helping you play with color schemes. From the Firefox menubar, click “Tools” then select “Add-ons” to enable or disable your extensions. On the add-ons window, click the “Options” button to […]

For mobile developers, the concept of a new year’s resolution is a different animal. Most mobile developers have resolved to make some serious money in the coming year, and FierceDeveloper.com has some interesting predictions for those developers in 2011. The first prediction is that Apple will release the iOS to Verizon, boosting developer interest far […]

Today’s special: webmaster tools for dummies…er, dummy tools for webmasters. This add-on leaves nothing to the imagination, literally. At some point, you have likely experienced the challenge of building and testing a new site without having any real content to use. Hard to see just how the layout will perform with only your lame attempt […]

Google has accomplished a lot in the last year, but this year we have several resolutions for the search engine giant for the year 2011 and beyond. Google is obviously aware that every move they make is being closely monitored by the U.S. government. The close monitoring has likely been taking a toll on Google, […]

A recent poll on i-Programmer shows that while JavaScript certainly has its detractors, over 35% believe it to be a great programming language, versus 28% who believe it to be a “terrible” language. While this is a narrow win for the scripting language, if you take into consideration that another 16% see it to be […]

Google’s Android went from 30,000 apps in March of 2010, to around 150,000 today. Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 grew to over 5,000 apps in only two months–even faster than Android. Although they are both still catching up to Apple’s App Store, which has over 300,000 apps, they are gaining ground every day. The Android market […]

Nothing like a case of link rot to tarnish your otherwise sparkling website. The LinkChecker extension offers a quick and convenient way to identify any broken links on your site. Pop on over to the LinkChecker extension download page. Once you click the “Add to Firefox” button, the add-on will automatically install into Firefox. From […]